100 Day Creative Challenge Day 42: Devoted Devoted a feeling of strong love or loyalty : the quality of being devoted the use of time, money, energy, etc, for a particular purpose If devotion is is defined as a strong love or loyalty what are you devoted to? My strong love and loyalty is to […]
100 Day CreativeChallenge Day 40: Love Life Sometimes life sucks. We all have those times when grief, disappointment, resentment, bitterness, sadness, stress or just plain exhaustion make us question what life is all about. Today a whole town has been burnt down in the south of our state and I’m sure they won’t be thinking […]
100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 39 Inspiration: By Appointment The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. Ralph Waldo Emerson In the name of research and inspiration I’ve been on Pinterest, Facebook, design blogs, writers’ blogs, watched movies, read myriad books, […]
One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 30 Recovering a Sense of Possibility LESSON FOUR: An Artist Requires Creative Solitude If you’ve ever done a Myers Briggs personality test you may have been a screaming mess like I was. The introvert/extrovert divide is not that clear in any test I’ve done. I remember asking if I could begin the […]
One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 28 Recovering a Sense of Possibility LESSON FOUR: REPLACE ‘NO WAY!’ WITH ‘MAYBE.’ Julia Cameron calls finding our creative voice and following its guidance, ‘Finding the River’ in her book The Artist’s Way. When we begin to recover our sense of possibility we find ourselves saying, “You could still […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 20 Finding Time At this time of year it’s hard enough to clean the house and shop for Christmas without finding time for creative work. Fortunately a lot of us enjoy the creativity of Christmas preparation. Whether it’s baking, wrapping or choosing presents or finding creative ways to […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 19 The creative life means we are in it for the process, not just the final product. Too many people are looking to just create that one piece that will bring them fame or fortune, but for most of us, break-even or gratis is what we end up […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge Day 15 Being free from fear of being wrong is essential to the creative process. Too often our perfectionism turns into fear which turns into procrastination which morphs into atrophy. I have a book I finished writing a few months ago now and I’ve begun editing it AGAIN as […]
Everyone is creative in some way, shape or form. Some of us make things. Some of us think differently. Some of us make people laugh. Some of us can pull things apart and out them back together. What is it that drives this creativity and why do we have it? I love that my […]
